Bug 525820

Summary: smartd cannot send warning email because of missing privileges - smartd actually useless!
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ronald Wahl <rwahl>
Component: smartmontoolsAssignee: Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Ronald Wahl 2009-09-25 23:56:13 UTC 
Description of problem:

When smartd sends warning emails it calls the mailer "mail" by default. "mail" itself tries dropping privileges but fails:

Executing test of mail to root ...
Test of mail to root produced unexpected output (66 bytes) to STDOUT/STDERR: 
drop_privileges: setgroups(1, 51) failed: Operation not permitted

... and no mail is actually sent.

This will cause admins detecting disk failures when it's already too late.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

smartmontools-5.38-13.fc11.i586

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. stop smartd by calling "service smartd stop"
2. Add -M test to a device config in /etc/smard.conf, e.g.:

/dev/sda -d sat -H -l error -l selftest -t -I 9 -I 190 -I 194 -m root -M test

2. call "smartd -d -q onecheck" and watch the output
3. Check root's email
  
Actual results:

no email from smartd

Expected results:

email from smartd

Additional info:

Most probably caused by the "smartmontools-5.38-lowcap.patch".
Comment 1 Michal Hlavinka 2009-09-29 13:33:50 UTC 
> Most probably caused by the "smartmontools-5.38-lowcap.patch".  

so this was working before update, right?
Comment 2 Ronald Wahl 2009-09-29 22:00:33 UTC 
Yes. Just checked with smartmontools-5.38-11.fc11.i586.rpm.
Comment 3 Michal Hlavinka 2009-10-05 14:04:48 UTC 
fixed in smartmontools-5.38-14.fc11
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2009-10-05 14:46:32 UTC 
smartmontools-5.38-14.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/smartmontools-5.38-14.fc11
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2009-10-05 14:46:44 UTC 
smartmontools-5.38-18.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/smartmontools-5.38-18.fc12
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2009-10-27 06:43:50 UTC 
smartmontools-5.38-18.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.